hi everyone! i'm denver (23, she/they) and i'm happy to be here with both han seongmin and seo daeun (pinterest). like this post if you're interested in plotting with daeun and i'll dm you asap <3
biog
born october 10, 1994 (currently 31) in seomri-myeon to a single mother. mind you, her mom wasn't supposed to be a single mother - her boyfriend had assured her a hundred times that they were going to get married and raise the baby together and maybe even have another, but about ~5 months into the pregnancy he decided he was too young to be held back by being a father, basically. opted to pay child support and live a couple streets over while never seeing the baby.
her mom's best friend (historians will say that's all the relationship was) moved in to help with bills and childcare when daeun was about 3??? so there were two parental figures in the home, it was just a bit unconventional. they were definitely a hot topic back in the day.
as daeun got a little bit older, it became increasingly apparent that something was... not exactly right with her. she was a bad kid x10. very emotional, very dramatic, very selfish. everything had to be her way, and if it wasn't, she would lose her shit. as soon as she started going to daycare, the complaints started rolling in. they got worse when she started school. "poor communication skills", "not a team player", "pulls other girls' hair", so on and so forth... and instead of thinking "wow maybe this is something we need to address," her mom + mom's alleged best friend decided that it must've been something they were doing wrong. they weren't spending enough time with her, they weren't showing her enough love, they weren't listening to her enough. they never punished her, which in turn kind of fueled the bad behavior lbr.
was absolutely a bully in school. i don't think she even had a mean girl clique; she acted as a lone force of evil. had a few friends who were very dear to her & exempt from her attitude, but how exactly she picked who to be nice to and who to make miserable is anyone's guess.
her personality calmed down a lot when she was around 14. her mom passed away very suddenly after a routine checkup turned into "something is severely wrong" and a short-term hospital stay. it was a lot to deal with for a kid, and especially on such short notice so if that wasn't enough to soften her on its own, her dying mom saying "i'm worried that other people won't understand you" was.
was kind of a basket case around this time because you know then there was a legal case where daeun's dad was contacted and asked to take her in (which he refused) and then her mom's alleged best friend who she'd always been kind of mean to formally adopted her like..... it was a trying time where the world was shifting around her. she was really lonely and this was the first time in her life that she really realized other people are real people and they matter.
was kind of weird from age 14 to 15 considering all of that, then settled into what ended up being her perma-personality - lonely, loud, impulsive, selfish, attention-hungry. started dating at age 15 and never really stopped, but her relationships were always short-lived because she's pretty but very high-maintenance and self-centered. has claimed that every breakup she's ever gone through was initiated by her and that she was "better off", but to this day she has never dumped anyone.
so yea she went kind of boy crazy as a teenager, didn't really gaf about school, did the bare minimum to coast by without having to retake any classes. immediately after high school she started working retail, has bounced between jobs at probably every entry-level workplace in town because she gets bored and thinks the grass is greener elsewhere.
which is also how she treats relationships btw - very much an unappreciative partner who gets bored and starts looking at other people and taking her own partner for granted, and then they leave her and she realizes she actually liked them pretty well.
eventually started working at oni cafe and stuck around long enough (6 years now!) that she became the manager. was offered the job two years ago now, which also happens to be around the time she was getting married :) yeah, the difficult, horrible, unloyal woman found a man willing to marry her :) so it was a pretty good time and in her life between the job and the marriage, and they were actually pretty happy in the beginning, but then daeun ruined it like she ruins everything - by being selfish, ungrateful, complaintive, and mean. she felt him pulling away from her but kept telling herself it was all in her head up until he told her he wanted a divorce. the divorce was finalized 6 months ago, and he promptly moved out, leaving daeun with the house they'd bought together and the cat they'd adopted together. everything is exactly as it was during their marriage, except now she's bitter and alone
will claim that she requested the divorce, but neighbors def witnessed her screaming crying begging him not to leave as he got in his car and drove away. it's that serious.
anyway, she was a pretty good manager before that, but ever since, she's been inconsistent. the type of boss you have to walk on eggshells around/feel out what kind of mood she's in before asking anything of her lmfao
is 100% still the drama. a slightly better person than she was in her younger years (she's learned her lesson a million times over so she's not boy crazy anymore and also is lonely as hell so she's on a nice streak!) but she's still always caught up in some bullshit. knows everyone's business, likes to talk about it. a very animated speaker. tries to make out like she's doing better than she ever has but then you see her wiping her tears mid-smoke break. very reactive; easy to fool, def the "no way!" and loud gasp you overhear when people are having too loud of a conversation in a public space, kind of a know-it-all (she insists on having to be right all the time, sorry), pretty non-judgmental despite (or because of) it all like............ you can tell her anything.
has been spending almost every night getting drunk at the wheat barrel for the past 6 months.
plot ideas
girls she used to bully in school but now she feels kind of inferior to them and is consequently awkward around them
some regular at the cafe who's been having to talk to daeun about their orders pretty regularly recently because they always come out wrong and daeun says she'll talk to her staff but then you catch her making the order and when you get it it's still wrong.......... is she...... doing this on purpose?
someone she's gotten friendlier with since she's been frequenting the wheat barrel. they get along pretty decently but for some reason just haven't attempted to communicate outside of the bar
a couple good girl friends please!!!!!!!! she may not have always been as appreciative of them as she should have been, but she's definitely becoming a better friend now :)
other regulars at the cafe who daeun likes to talk to in her down moments - people she doesn't seek outside of work, but she always likes to see them in store!!!!
neighbors who hear her drunkenly crying and then telling herself to grow up on her porch nightly. not a depressing thing, def an element of humor to it because she goes from sniffling to sobbing to telling herself to be serious and then there's silence for a bit and then she burps (must live on onyu-gil)
is anyone crazy enough to think they can fix her?













